NVIDIA shows off the new Dawn

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/06/2012 12:02 PM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Ten years years ago NVIDIA revealed the Dawn tech demo and now the company shows off A New Dawn, a tech demo that illustrates a decade of techniques and advancement made in the realm of real-time 3D graphics.

Ten years later, at last Dawn has found a new home. In A New Dawn, the demo starts not with the main character, but with a sweeping overview of a lush rainforest. Ferns gently sway in the moonlight, vines sprawl across an ancient tree, and budding flowers cast a gentle glow on the surrounding bark. As our character comes into view, we find her swinging on a vine in her new tree home. The tree is rendered to the finest level of detail using DirectX 11 tessellation. At its peak, over four million triangles are used to showcase Dawn's environment. The downloadable demo of A New Dawn will be released on GeForce.com later this month and you'll need a GeForce GTX 690 or two GTX 600 series GPUs to fully experience the demo...

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